The general objective of the NWC SAF is to provide operational services to ensure the optimum use of meteorological data in nowcasting and very short range forecasting. At SMHI we are responsible for the development and maintenance of a software package (the PPS-package) to process the products from data gathered from NOAA and Metop satellites.
The NWC SAF products consist of cloud and wind products from imagers (MODIS, AVHRR, VIIRS, SLSTR, MERSI2) on polar orbiting satellites.
Cloud products
Some examples of cloud products from the Nowcasting-SAF.
![Satellite imagery of current weather situation in Northern Europe 2023-04-09 at 09:45 UTC](/polopoly_fs/1.194854.1681222593!/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_overview.png_gen/derivatives/Original_542px/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_overview.png)
![Satellite image with Cloud probability 0-100%](/polopoly_fs/1.730.1681284058!/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_cloudmask_probability%2Blegend.png_gen/derivatives/Original_542px/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_cloudmask_probability%2Blegend.png)
![Satellite image with Cloud type and legend for the colors](/polopoly_fs/1.734.1681284141!/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_cloudtype%2Blegend.png_gen/derivatives/Original_542px/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_cloudtype%2Blegend.png)
![Satellite image showing cloud top temperature and height, with legend for colors.](/polopoly_fs/1.735.1681284219!/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_ctth%2Blegend.png_gen/derivatives/Original_542px/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_ctth%2Blegend.png)
![Satellite image showing Cloud phase, with legend for colors.](/polopoly_fs/1.739.1681284306!/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_cmic-cph%2Blegend2.png_gen/derivatives/Original_542px/image/Metop-B_20230409_0945_euron1_cmic-cph%2Blegend2.png)